In SuperPope Episode II news, I’ve been animating on it the past few months when I have the chance (*cough* not playing games *cough cough*). Here are a couple teaser screenshots. The title is either going to be “Jaded!” or “Fistful of Demons”, and the plot will endeavor to answer the oft asked question, “Why does God let bad things happen to good people?” Of course, the short answer is, “There’s no such thing as a good person when compared to a perfect God,” but I’ll try and make a more uplifting point than that. And rest assured that plenty of demon blood will be spilt in the process.
For my friends and the voyeuristically curious, let me give you an update on what’s been happening in my life lately.
I was sucked into City of Heroes back in September when a free 21 day trial came with my PC Gamer magazine. No, I have not been playing it to an addictive degree, but I do have a Level 28 Illusion/Radiation Controller named “7-Year Cicada”. My son and I also got City of Villains for Christmas. He mainly loves the character creation utility, and frequently asks me to fire it up just so he can create a new character. I like how quickly I can get in the game, get on a team, tear through a mission, and log off again. I have a family, after all.
In other news, I made the mistake of reorganizing my console game collection and putting all of the “Games I Intend to Finish When I Have the Time” on one shelf. There are more than 45 games sitting there, mocking me. I need to swear off new games until I get these finished (and I need to swear off of them until I get SuperPope Episode 2 finished, I know!). On several games I’m very close to the ending (Star Ocean, Paper Mario 2, etc.), but Dragon Quest VIII is awfully hard to put down…
For Christmas I got Sid a few cool things. He’s really been wanting an original Soundwave toy, but they go for crazy amounts on eBay. Well, I finally discovered that they created a reissue of him in Japan recently, in black and silver with a remodeled cassette door that holds two tapes at once. It also includes Buzzsaw and Ravage cassettes. He was appropriately excited about it.
Sid is infatuated with video game controllers in general, and also loves the little blue slimes from Dragon Quest. Could I give a more perfect gift, then, than a controller made to look like a Dragon Quest slime? I submit that I could not. He was equally pleased with this.
You should know, Mr. Rutledge, that I'm sitting here at work, and I am fighting back so many urges to just fake sickness and go to Wal-Mart and pick up DW8 and just see what I can do in the next 18 hours. I miss video games so much. I never play!
If and when I come back to Ada, that would be a pretty sweet thing, to have a dedicated game night. And ooh! LAN party! We haven't LAN gamed in.. well, since the good ol' days of Smokesignals.
Man, now I'm all down. And nice Regan reference by the way. :-D
Posted by: Jay | January 10, 2006 at 05:15 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/01/19/japan.jellyfish.reut/index.html
Metroids!!!!
Posted by: HMS | January 19, 2006 at 01:14 PM
FYI - Thursday nights is miyazaki on AMC. New Disney/Pixar deal promoting uncensored japanese film. Thought you might enjoy it.
And you thought racoon bears were the only 'real' anime monster... :)
Posted by: HMS | January 19, 2006 at 01:18 PM
stg - I just heard a preview for a movie on UPN that had a clip from one of your songs in it. I don't remember the name of the song and my hard drive died so I don't have any of your music- maybe it was the future is never?
Also is your music somewhere online?
Posted by: josh | January 23, 2006 at 11:29 PM